The campaign as a whole, however, is not dynamic player success or failure does not affect upcoming battles beyond the strength of the player's forces.
All HERCs can be outfitted with an ore extractor which when activated collects all mineable ore in the hexagon where the machine is standing.Īll maps and enemy locations are randomly generated, meaning no two playthroughs will be the same. However, in the beginning of the game the primary source of income is through mining ore, which can be found scattered across the maps. The player gets credits for every enemy they destroy as well as a mission-bonus dependent on the difficulty of the mission. The game is played from a top-down isometric view-perspective typical for turn-based strategy games. Missions can be selected from a list of Cybrid-controlled planets within a specified system. One early communique describes the horror of having one's genes taken to create BioDerms, and if the player wins the game, Unitech makes it clear that they will in fact do that with the player's avatar, it is an "honor," and there is no choice.Ĭommand screen showing hexagon based movement pathīy completing missions and progressing, the player gains rank in order to get access to more advanced equipment and hardware, as well as being able to control more HERCs. The instructions and early parts of the game indicate that these BioDerms are sub-human, more like trained dogs, but later communiques show that they are intelligent, can think independently (and even rebel), and even think of one model as a "messiah." Thus, the BioDerms are actually slaves: disposable humanoids to be used on the battlefield, and "recycled" for a few credits or blown up in kamikaze attacks by corporate officers when they are no longer useful. The BioDerms are supposedly used because of their genetically engineered reflexes, their ability to be directly "linked" to the HERCs, and their obedience. The player's soldiers are "BioDerms", short-lived, artificially-created humanoids designed to pilot the HERC war machines. This is confirmed if the player ever loses the game by having his or her forces eliminated down to the last HERC without having enough credits to replace them. Early on in the game one of the corporate communiques implies that Unitech can and will execute any of its military officers if they fail. The corporate environment is cold and ruthless, with military decisions being controlled by a computer system called the Main Synthetic Intelligence (MSI). The game's plot and atmosphere is filled in via messages and text between missions, and is rather dark. The player starts as an employee of the Unitech Corporation, serving as a commander of a private military taskforce to fight a race of mechanical beings mankind created long ago called Cybrids.
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